12 Most Useful Container Orchestration Tools in 2023

Container orchestrators are tools that automate container deployment, administration, and scaling tasks in production environments. They simplify the management of fleets of containers by allowing developers to think in terms of application components instead of individual containers. Some popular orchestration tools include Kubernetes, OpenShift, Docker Swarm, Hashicorp Nomad, managed cloud Kubernetes providers, Rancher, Portainer, KubeSphere, Mesos, AWS Fargate, Cloudify, and GitLab. These tools support the use of containers across different clouds, datacenters, and environments, providing consistent deployment, seamless rollout changes, automatic scaling, and fault tolerance.